It reflects the proprietary capital they can leverage for generating returns.
Thursday's charges focus on a group of traders at the proprietary firm Incremental Capital.
Nor are they happy with some parts of the Dodd-Frank bill regarding derivatives, proprietary trading, and capital.
In addition to this, the Volcker rule is expected to further tighten control on the ability of banks to use their capital for proprietary trading.
One was introduced by Democrats Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Carl Levin of Michigan to bar banks from proprietary trading and impose tougher capital standards on risk taking.
David holds three U.S. patents and has a patent pending for Mainstay Capital Management's proprietary Waypoint Retirement Planning System.
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The rule would restrict banks from trading with their own capital, known as proprietary trading, and investing in hedge funds and private equity.
Incremental Capital and Schottenfeld Group are proprietary trading firms that specialize in putting on short and long positions in stocks.
One is proprietary trading, in which they bet their own capital on movements in the markets.
Short-termism has resulted directly or indirectly in corporate earnings games, the deferral of investments needed for long-term competitiveness and the transformation of investment and commercial banking from a capital-facilitating agency service business into a principal proprietary trading business.
The bill also curbs proprietary trading by banks and toughens the rules regarding the quality of capital and amounts of capital banks need to hold in reserve.
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The bill also curbs proprietary trading by banks and changes the rules regarding the quality of capital and amounts of capital banks need to hold in reserve.
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He is at his best when evoking the greed, fear and outright paranoia of the first great age of proprietary-trading desks (which bet big with their bank's own capital).
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The so-called Volcker Rule was adopted (which at least would limit proprietary trading by depository banks to no more than 3% of their Tier 1 capital).
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This sale was in connection with a repositioning of State Street?s proprietary investment portfolio so as to reduce exposure to certain asset classes and hence improve the capital ratios in line with the evolving regulatory capital standards.
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